Example sentences of "period [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a difficult period for a few years until the market caught up with us . ’ |
| 2 | The union representing the performers were militantly opposed to British dancers taking work from them and there was a lean period for the sixteen Girls left . |
| 3 | In the period between the two maps , the former distortion has just faded out whereas the latter has amplified and migrated to become the significant cyclonic region at the south of Greenland in the second map . |
| 4 | During the period between the two wars in the twenties and thirties a quite successful team played in Halling , and I can recall as a lad spending many hours watching them . |
| 5 | In any other case , bankruptcy proceedings must be begun in the county court for the insolvency district in which the debtor has resided or carried on business for the longest period during the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the bankruptcy petition ( r 6.9(2) ) . |
| 6 | If curve A in Figure 6.9 applies to Mercury then the erasure of craters must have occurred throughout a fairly extended period during the final stages of formation . |
| 7 | The medico-moral strategy was consolidated in the period after the initial reforms of the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 8 | The name , New Millennium , means the new period of a thousand years which will start in the year 2000–1 and it also suggests an era of peace and harmony . |
| 9 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 10 | In a laboratory context , the isolation of the respondent during a T 1 — T 2 period of a few hours should remove this effect ; even changes such as sunlight may need to be eliminated . |
| 11 | How can a beam of electrons that is made to wiggle in a plane with a spatial period of a few centimetres possible produce electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of a few microns ? |
| 12 | The time resolution is excellent - the growth of maize seedlings over a period of a few minutes can be detected . |
| 13 | That this should have happened , within a period of a few generations for example , and therefore in evolutionary terms , immediately , is palpably unlikely , for the mental development which heralded the beginnings of civilisation could have started long before man 's activities were such as would leave archaeological evidence . |
| 14 | Because nothing can travel faster than light , an object that can vary its output of energy within a period of a few days can be at best a few light-days across . |
| 15 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 16 | Over a period of a few days during early August the world 's perception of the Kingdom shifted dramatically , so that King Hussein was no longer portrayed as one of the chief US allies in the region , but instead as one of Saddam Hussein 's prime collaborators . |
| 17 | Usually the syndrome is associated with frequent coughing and slight tachypnoea over a period of a few days ; less frequently there is marked tachypnoea , hyperpnoea and in dairy cows a reduction in milk yield . |
| 18 | Other changes in structure developed more slowly , but although the pattern looked different over a period of a few years , analogues of the basic groups seem to have been present ever since the phenomenon of the contemporary football fan arose in the middle to late 1960s . |
| 19 | As it happens , there is a substantial engine refurbishment contract in the offing which ( although tenders have not yet been invited ) promises to bring someone several tens of millions of pounds in revenue over a period of a few years . |
| 20 | Scientific studies carried out a few years ago revealed that regular sunbed users ( those using a bed more than once a week over a period of a few years ) now have a condition called skin fragility syndrome . |
| 21 | Seismic data were returned to Earth over a period of a few years from these five stations , though they were reduced to four when the Apollo 11 station stopped working . |
| 22 | Thus , we have : For two main reasons , economists are usually quite happy to work with ‘ gross ’ rather than ‘ net ’ figures : first , depreciation tends to change only slowly over time so that the ‘ gross ’ and ‘ net ’ figures move closely together over any period of a few years ; and secondly , depreciation figures are notoriously difficult to estimate with any accuracy . |
| 23 | Work-shadowing , whereby a student follows a business person during her normal work routines over a period of a few weeks is becoming increasingly commonplace in the UK . |
| 24 | One school suddenly lost some of its best students over a period of a few weeks . |
| 25 | The state of the market can be ascertained by visiting a number of shops and auctions over the period of a few weeks , and carefully noting the prices . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's an extraordinary capsule in time , covering American collecting over a period of a dozen years ’ , he said . |
| 27 | Taxes to the government , taxes which were particularly high in this period , because it 's the period of the war lords , the period of the civil wars , the period of the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party , high levels of war taxation throughout this period . |
| 28 | You have to make sure that the period of the regular payments is measured in the same unit of time as the interest and the term . |
| 29 | In addition to these outbursts of weeping with which she made up arrears and which followed close upon the fatal termination of the illness , the lady celebrated annual festivals of remembrance at the period of the various catastrophes . |
| 30 | At each step the period of the current variations doubles . |